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Area of Science:

  • Environmental epidemiology
  • Spatial statistics
  • Public health

Background:

  • Geographic distribution of environmental factors impacts disease prevalence, including asthma.
  • Electronic Health Records (EHR) offer a valuable resource for studying disease-environment associations.
  • Controlling for spatial variation is crucial in environmental health research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify sparse environmental variables associated with asthma diagnosis using a large EHR dataset.
  • To develop and apply a novel Sparse Spatial Environmental Analysis (SASEA) method.
  • To investigate the spatial relationships between environmental factors and asthma prevalence.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a large EHR dataset (199,220 patients, ages 5-50) with geocoded addresses.
  • Obtained over one thousand environmental variables at the census block group level.
  • Developed SASEA, combining sparse principal component analysis and logistic thin plate regression spline modeling.

Main Results:

  • SASEA identified four key sparse principal components associated with asthma: food at home, dog ownership, household size, and disposable income.
  • Spatial variation in asthma was effectively captured by the logistic thin plate regression spline modeling.
  • In rural settings, dog ownership and renter-occupied housing were linked to asthma prevalence.

Conclusions:

  • The developed SASEA method successfully identified geographically distributed environmental factors associated with asthma.
  • Sparsity incorporation in spatial modeling is a significant contribution for environmental health studies.
  • SASEA provides a framework applicable to investigating other environmentally influenced diseases.